Replacing Arbitrary Stiffener with Regular Stiffeners, Based on Vector Analysis

International Journal of Civil Engineering

© 2018 by SSRG - IJCE Journal

Volume 5 Issue 3

Year of Publication : 2018

Authors : Muhammed Jouhar TT, P. Jayabalan

10.14445/23488352/IJCE-V5I3P108

How to Cite?

Muhammed Jouhar TT, P. Jayabalan, "Replacing Arbitrary Stiffener with Regular Stiffeners, Based on Vector Analysis," SSRG International Journal of Civil Engineering, vol. 5,  no. 3, pp. 42-48, 2018. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23488352/IJCE-V5I3P108

Abstract:

In order to simplify the analysis of arbitrary stiffeners, Yucheng Liu and Qingkui Wang [1] has proposed a hypothesis called vector analysis of stiffeners, which says that ‘in a stiffened plate following a manner of ‘‘vector analysis’’ based on the geometric features(Figure 1) an arbitrary stiffener can be decoupled into two regular stiffeners’. The study proved this theory with simpler stiffener combinations, but its applications in complicated grid type stiffeners was unknown. This is an FEM analysis with Abaqus which is checking the possibility of extending the applications of vector analysis to complicated stiffener combinations. As a beginning, single units of grid stiffeners like longitudinal, triangular, rectangular and hexagonal are used, and are decouple to equivalent regular stiffeners. The strengthening effects of the single units of grids and its decoupled equivalent combinations were compared. The study proves that the theory is only applicable in simple forms of stiffeners.

Keywords:

Stiffened plates, vector analysis, buckling of plates, stiffener optimization.

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